[Chi-townChief]

I guess we all knew this day was coming although, for me, it arrived about 15 years ago.

[Mr Rogers]

For me, it was when the bulge in my jeans became my belly...

[mylife]

Chicago's most-hyped summer concert is the pairing of Elton John, 62, and Billy Joel, 60,

Thanks, I'll be sure to miss that one.

[mylife]

Debbie Harry is 64?!!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Jagger looks like a prune now but a friend tells me he’s a fitness nut.

The old rockers will go on to their respective rewards, but new ones are springing up daily. They seem to thrive on tough times.

[Steely Tom]

Rock and Roll got rich selling kids the illusion that they didn’t have to get old like Mom and Dad if they didn’t want to. It was a huge lie, a lie as big as Blood and Soil or The Dictatorship of the Proletariat. The West’s big innovation was to atomize the lie, so that it made lots of people rich, famous, and powerful, instead of just a tiny, secretive cabal.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Last I saw, almost all forms of marketed music are dying except for Country.

[Gay State Conservative]

Rock and roll is to be played by those in their teens and 20’s.When it played by those in their 40’s (or older) it becomes mind-numbingly boring.

I would pay a dollar today to see the Stones,The Who or any other stars from the 60's or 70's.

[Kent C]

Rock and Roll started dying right after Frampton’s Comes Alive album. It was killed when Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson (thru CBS records) forced MTV to play their stuff (MTV died at that time too, imho).

[duckman]

I grew up during the 50’s Doowop era. I still enjoy my record collection; but it is pathetic to see some of these Doowop shows on PBS. A lot of the groups can still sing; but bald, fat Doowopers are not my cup of tea and ruin some good memories.IMHO

[DeLaine]

Rock is dead

(long live paper and scissors)

[tobyhill]

Real Rock & Roll will never die but I sure hope Rap and Hip-Hop kills over.

[Gay State Conservative]

I would pay=I wouldn’t pay

[maggief]

<3 Daughtry!

[Psycho_Bunny]

Please...the idea that Rock and Roll is dead is the result of self-important baby boomers being too lazy to get on the internet, or iTunes or go down to the local bar and spend the time figuring out who's rockin' nowadays.

Then they proclaim Rock and Roll "dead" while waiting for the 50th Digitally Remastered "Foreigner" compilation.

It's all very humorous.

[Larry381]

I’m old enough to have been backstage at Carnegie Hall during the Rolling Stones first American tour. My opinion of them was that they were crap.

[Sixgun Symphony]

Some of it was great music, but looking at the “cultural revolution” of the 1960’s I got to say that it would have been better for Western Civilization had it never been.

[Revolting cat!]

Freebird!

[Billthedrill]

Mebbe so, mebbe no. This is Tal Wilkenfeld. You play with Jeff Beck and Vinnie Colaiuta, you've got some chops. She's absolutely brilliant. And 21 years old.

THIS is her at Crossroads 2007. Her solo's at 2:15. Just damn.

[Ransomed]

“RocknRoll is Dead” is a great album by the Hellacopters. There’s great Rock being made today. Can’t help it if the popular media is too faggoty to play it.

Freegards

[Revolting cat!]

It’s been dead since the King (Paul McCartney) died in 1968!